Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh

常识：匹兹堡

• 批准号: 9253452
• 负责人: Robert Carlitz
• 金额: $ 198.97万
• 依托单位: MPC Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-01-01 至 1995-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9253452&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Common; Knowledge; Pittsburgh

This project establishes an educational networking testbed to test conjectures about major changes in the teaching environment of the Pittsburgh Public Schools made possible through the installation of an electronic data network that will ultimately be available to all students and teachers in the school district. The proposed network will be novel in its distributed architecture and distributed administrative structure. Teachers and students will use the network to access information and people outside of their classrooms. These new resources will be incorporated into curriculum, reform efforts, and the network will be used as a tool for the development, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of new curriculum components. The project will develop a set of network-based activities and provide a framework in which such activities can be implemented throughout the local school system, tested, evaluated and made available to other school districts around the nation. The project also establishes mechanisms to institutionalize the use and maintenance of network technology in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. The model that will be developed for the Pittsburgh Public Schools will be applicable to other urban school systems, and materials generated in the course of the project will be immediately available for the use of other school districts via district's connection the internet. The project thus tests the educational utility of wide area networks for the national K-12 community and will provide empirical date on costs and essential factors contributing to effectiveness. The project is a joint effort of the school district, the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, which itself was jointly founded by the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. The proposed activities will build coalitions involving these groups and many others across the local community. Within the school district the project involves cooperative activities which include students, teachers, instructional specialists, administrators and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers. The proposed network is the key element which will allow these groups to work together efficiently and smoothly. It is also the key to significant changes in the structure and quality of education in the Pittsburgh Public Schools and, by extension, in other school districts across the country. Full implementation of the proposed network will require an estimated five years to complete. The present proposal will fund a two-year pilot phase of the larger project. This pilot phase will attempt to answer all those questions which Pittsburgh - or any other school district contemplating the development of an extensive computer network - should understand before proceeding to a full-scale implementation. Funding for the three-year implementation phase which follows will be sought from a combination of NSF programs and programs managed by other federal agencies and private foundations.

该项目建立了一个教育网络试验平台， 关于教学环境的重大变化的测试说明 匹兹堡公立学校通过 建立一个电子数据网络， 提供给学区的所有学生和教师。 的 所提出的网络在其分布式架构方面将是新颖的， 分布式管理结构。 师生将 使用网络访问信息和外部人员 教室 这些新资源将纳入 课程，改革的努力，并将网络作为一种工具 发展、执行、评价和传播 新课程的组成部分。 该项目将开展一系列基于网络的活动， 提供一个框架，以便开展这些活动 在整个当地学校系统，测试，评估， 提供给全国各地的其他学区。 项目 还建立机制，使使用和 匹兹堡公立学校的网络技术维护。 将为匹兹堡公立学校开发的模型 将适用于其他城市学校系统， 在项目过程中产生的， 可供其他学区使用，通过地区的 连接互联网。 因此，该项目测试了教育 全国K-12社区广域网的实用性， 将提供有关成本和要素的经验数据 有助于提高效率。 该项目是一个共同努力的学区， 匹兹堡大学和匹兹堡超级计算中心， 它本身是由匹兹堡大学共同创立的， 卡内基梅隆大学和西屋电气 Corporation. 拟议的活动将建立联盟， 包括这些团体和当地社区的许多其他团体。 在学区内，该项目涉及合作 活动包括学生、教师、教学 专家，管理人员和匹兹堡联合会 教师 拟议的网络是关键要素， 这些团体有效和顺利地一起工作。 也是 结构和质量发生重大变化的关键 匹兹堡公立学校的教育，进而延伸到 全国各地的其他学区。 全面实施拟议的网络将需要 预计五年完成。 本提案将资助 这是一个为期两年的大型项目的试点阶段。 这一试点工作 将试图回答所有这些问题，匹兹堡-或 任何其他学区考虑发展一个 广泛的计算机网络-在继续之前应了解 全面实施。 三年期供资 在随后的实施阶段， NSF计划和其他联邦管理的计划的组合 机构和私人基金会。